The All-Seeing Eye of Google: Strange Coincidence or Invasive Tracking? + Google Search Cringe Ads

in #rant3 years ago (edited)

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Was searching for a tablet w pen since my daughter expressed interest in my pixel art app and strangely soon after Roku played a Google shopping ad that displayed a search for a tablet w a pen.

How Peculiar

Got me wondering if it was somehow personalized and got me looking at it from a more humorous angle. For example, I was curious what would happen to the neckbeard who recently searched for their anime waifu body pillow or anybody that happened to be searching for something embarrassing like that.

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Just imagine he was upstairs from the basement watching tv with his parents and THAT commercial came on! LMAO!

No, but I'm a serious note, was this just a coincidence or, since my Roku is tied to my Google, did it know what I was searching for on separate retailer apps? If the latter, that's kinda creepy and would be hella interested in disabling that "feature".


Anyways, let's have some fun in the comments.

What is the most embarrassing or cringe thing you could imagine would pop up in somebody's personalized Google search ad?

Have a few in mind so I'll give y'all a head start. Upvotes to any entries that make me chuckle. Hidden prize goes to the one I like the best. Have fun!

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I did a search for real life sex dolls back when I suspected a particular site on steemit was using life like mannequins for their blockchain like Instagram site. Back when I use to post on a site on Disqus I'd often ran across weird stories to post for the utterly confusing news site, most highlighting the popularity of the dolls or stories of men who came to prefer having them, I knew some of the pics they used seemed eerily similar to some I had seen before. I matched about three of them to a "t", as they'd say but I ended up getting so badly beat up by that addy dude or whatever his name was I never followed through writing the post. It just hit me, it was their introduction post, meet our girls or some shit like that. I was like I've seen these girls before. Anyway, for weeks afterwards sex dolls kept popping up in various ad forms in sites I am on or in advertising in my emails, being female I was like I sure hope no one pops by while I am going through my emails.....lol.

"how to hide a body"

Dunno, would chuckle and say I am in danger if that thing popped up on my borrowed friend's pc.

"Body bags" would certainly raise a few eyebrows. Lol

Oh yeah, I from a long arse distance from most anything was talking of posting and using the "Deep Dives" tag, sure enough on the Roku a bunch of weird super diving popped up. Marianas Trench stuff and we all invited this "smart" sh** into our lives O.o

This one is obviously a gimme.

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And now "Swedish Made Penis Enlargement Pump Austin Powers" is in my search history! Honestly it's not mine! 🤣

Guy that is sensitive about hair loss getting the toupée ad on a Netflix and Chill date! 😂

Yay! 🤗
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